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Editorial
A court appointment more important than Roberts
The debate on whether Democratic senators should support the confirmation of John Roberts to be the Supreme Court’s next chief justice is nearing a conclusion with next week’s scheduled vote. No knowledgeable observer believes there is a chance Roberts will be denied confirmation, so the more important question for senators is how will their vote affect the appointment to fill the court’s other vacancy?
Tribeca 5B decision
Letters to the editor
Notebook
A name with more pull than a birth name
By Wickham Boyle
This morning in the still inky morning I heard feint taps on my bedroom door. I didn’t stir from real sleep, as I perceived my name being called.
“Wicki, Wicki get up.”
No response.
“Mama get up, you said we could do science.”
I was out of bed in a flash.
Wicki will not move me from my bed, and Mama will rouse me in a nanosecond. So in fact, despite what Shakespeare postulated, there is something in a name. Perhaps a rose by any other name will smell as sweet, but to a mother, the moniker as it trips from the tongue of your off spring is a clarion call, and different from all other names.
The Penny Post
Stages of grief
By Andrei Codrescu
A reader accused me of writing premature elegies for New Orleans. The city isn’t dead, he said, we’re bringing it back. Okay, so that’s how I feel, too. On Tuesday. On Monday I felt like crying. On Wednesday I got mad at everybody, starting with Bush and going on down the line to my reader.
Police Blotter
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3 p.m. dismisal at P.S. 20. City cuts have forced the school to scale back the after school programs. City’s after school cuts hit Chinatown & L.E.S. hardest |
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By Caitlin Eichelberger
A dome of water spun up from the sea and thrown onto land. A torrent of wind racing along the avenues. A flood rising around the bases of skyscrapers.
Second bus route to return to Park Row
By Claire F. Hamilton
The M15 bus route will return to Park Row within a week. The latest development in Chinatown’s dispute with the Police Dept. over the partially-open road doubles the number of bus stops between Worth St. and City Hall to 400 per day. The M15 will mark the second bus route—after the M103—to be reinstated on Park Row since four were diverted after September 11.
Talks begin on W.T.C. memorial’s museum
By Ellen Keohane
About 50 people, including 9/11 family members, museum curators, a filmmaker and a professor, settled into seats at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies in Lower Manhattan on Monday night to learn more about the future plans for the World Trade Center’s Memorial Museum. The public workshop was the first of two scheduled within the next month.
Friends loaned Lopez $166,000 to settle campaign disputeBy Lincoln Anderson
Following the filing of a Freedom of Information Law request, the Campaign Finance Board released a document detailing personal loans made to City Councilmember Margarita Lopez allowing her to qualify for public matching funds in her unsuccessful borough president campaign.
Energy fuels latest battle in East Side arts center war
By Ronda Kaysen
A Lower East Side arts center was granted a last -minute reprieve from Con Edison last week — preventing a catastrophic power outage that would have closed the center. But the internal strife that has threatened to destroy one of the last vestiges of affordable studio space for artists in the neighborhood for years is no closer to a resolution, despite a new management structure that will be unveiled this week.
Gilda Radner gets her way on Houston St.By Lincoln Anderson
With a “1-2-3!” they tugged on the string and — it broke off! The paper wrapper was left still covering the new sign.
“Gilda would have loved this!” someone in the crowd said with a smile.
YWCA celebrates new Downtown home
By Caitlin Eichelberger
The YWCA of the city of New York celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Lower Manhattan Wednesday. Decked out in the organization’s signature color — persimmon — children from the YWCA’s early learning center in Clinton assisted in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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